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» 16/03/2008 4:35:17 PM Just for once, BD, put yourself in the other person's shoes. I feel very comforted by the.....
» 6/04/2007 2:51:31 PM Philip, the justification for giving public funds to religious schools is based on the ide.....
» 2/04/2007 11:00:14 AM Was it you or the sub-editor that chose the word intolerance for the title here, Stephen? .....
» 19/02/2007 4:59:59 PM Don, I guess my use of the word “remains” implies that I have some knowledge of indigenous.....
» 19/02/2007 10:22:54 AM Very annoying, very lazy article. On the issue of aboriginal health, the key question is .....
» 5/02/2007 5:40:40 PM The “many classes of people” you mention, Diggins, are already disadvantaged in this socie.....
» 4/02/2007 10:29:57 AM Yes, Sage, you've said it before, and each time you've said it, you were wrong. The Wood .....
» 3/02/2007 10:36:01 PM Yes, Fletch, some HIV-positive people are behaving dangerously, and not just homosexuals -.....
» 3/02/2007 1:14:53 PM Yes, David Flint, it is worse for some. The Canadian detainee Omar Khadr http://en.wikiped.....
» 30/01/2007 9:07:12 PM This discussion has drifted well away from the original topic regarding the “causes” of ho.....
» 30/01/2007 4:17:35 PM Oh good. Glad we've all made up. Can we shoot the dog now? ;-).....
» 30/01/2007 7:37:08 AM mjpb, you're (deliberately?) misreading my post. Go back and read it again, and maybe you .....
» 30/01/2007 7:19:55 AM Thanks Rainier. Very apposite little story. Any one interested in the issues raised here .....
» 28/01/2007 7:43:58 PM The fact that they did not speak English does not mean that they can't. Human beings und.....
» 26/01/2007 8:42:42 AM Celivia, it’s not just the Netherlands. In July 2005 Spain extended all marriage rights to.....
» 25/01/2007 1:25:08 PM Could we have the rhetoric toned down a notch, please. mjpb, your post begins with the c.....
» 24/01/2007 9:34:32 PM I've come a bit late to this discussion, but if I can still add a suggestion ... Rodney C.....
» 16/01/2007 11:34:32 AM Absolutely, spendocrat. I came across this post at Larvatus Prodeo this morning, and had.....
» 16/01/2007 11:27:37 AM Time Magazine’s Person of the Year for 2006 was “You” http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar.....
» 13/01/2007 3:50:15 PM I feel very comforted by the fact that I would incur serious legal sanctions if I were to .....
» 12/01/2007 5:16:20 PM Snout, your three initial postings here are a neat summary of progress in solving the appa.....
» 11/01/2007 6:46:22 PM Got some bad news for you, Stephany. You do not have a right to freedom of speech. In Aust.....
» 11/01/2007 3:47:59 PM It's worth noting that Nalliah and Scot aren't off the hook yet. The Court of Appeal has .....
» 9/01/2007 11:42:29 AM Commendable persistence in attempting to drive traffic to your website, freediver. Anyon.....
» 17/12/2006 7:50:02 AM "How about this.... we will have a small team meet at the Islamic Information and Sup.....
» 15/12/2006 10:26:44 AM Bugger! The thought of BD in an itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini was getti.....
» 7/12/2006 11:49:54 AM Snout, you’re bloody amazing. I tend to dip in and out of OLO, but for some months now yo.....
» 9/11/2006 11:42:52 AM BD inhabits a very small but steep-sided hill. Every way he looks there's a slippery slope.....
» 9/11/2006 11:37:57 AM BD inhabits a very small but steep-sided hill. Every way he looks there's a slippery slope.....
» 8/11/2006 5:02:14 PM Blood oath, mjpb. Someones gotta stick up for REAL AUSSIE VALUES. I reckon your maybe tr.....
» 8/11/2006 7:54:02 AM I don’t care what religionists do in the PRIVICY of their own homes. Obviously to me its w.....
» 7/11/2006 9:13:33 PM That would be the Annangrove Prayer Hall that BD is referring to: http://www.smh.com.au/ar.....
» 7/11/2006 11:55:30 AM Snout, I reckon BD has identified one of the non-negotiables: "Australia is the most .....
» 5/11/2006 3:38:54 PM OK. Settle Liam, settle. Masters’ accounts of Jones’ dealings with his students border on.....
» 5/11/2006 12:08:42 PM Correct, fletch. Jones doesn’t make anti-gay remarks, and to my knowledge he has avoided c.....
» 31/10/2006 11:07:53 PM To work out what you meant by heat and euphemisms, mjpb, I had to head off to another disc.....
» 31/10/2006 7:09:12 PM I’ve been struggling with this one ever since David Marr was first into print with the con.....
» 31/10/2006 4:28:37 PM Thanks, mjpb. It’s interesting how the income statistics for gays and lesbians always seem.....
» 31/10/2006 7:37:14 AM Thank you, Robert. Entirely to the point. I could add that religious organisations also.....
» 30/10/2006 6:04:07 PM Your signal is breaking up, mjpb. You’re becoming incomprehensible. There was nothing eup.....
» 30/10/2006 2:27:07 PM I'm clearly not as 'au fait' with these issues as you are, mjpb. Could you please point .....
» 29/10/2006 7:44:35 AM “who will be the first homosexual who will ask (with a straight face) why Christians who r.....
» 27/10/2006 2:14:49 PM “…he never angrily says that Christians are obsessed with homosexuals.” Probably because .....
» 26/10/2006 5:48:05 PM I think when you belong to the majority, it’s very easy to overlook the difficulties faced.....
» 26/10/2006 1:08:15 PM “You can distinguish between a person, a tendency, and a behaviour. Many people feel stron.....
» 25/10/2006 6:30:48 PM It’s nice to speculate about the causes or origins of homosexuality, but ultimately I don’.....
» 24/10/2006 10:44:08 PM Sigh. BD, a moment’s reflection, and you would see the contradiction in complaining abou.....
» 21/10/2006 7:35:03 PM Well, T800, your long years may have piled on the pomposity, but they haven’t taught you t.....
» 21/10/2006 8:02:19 AM I think you'll find, mjpb, that the rainbow sash people are not saying "I sin and tha.....
» 20/10/2006 12:32:01 PM Thank you, mjpb. Now I understand. It's OK to discriminate against honest sinners, but no.....
» 20/10/2006 7:15:39 AM Doh! Of course it’s not just a concern with leniency, it’s also BD’s obsession with homose.....
» 19/10/2006 8:20:23 PM mjpb, Quote: Almost half of the respondents, 48%, resided in inner suburbs of Sydney, inc.....
» 19/10/2006 1:22:13 PM The examples that BD and others have provided here indicate more a problem with leniency t.....
» 18/10/2006 11:24:08 PM Let's get one thing (ahem) straight: no-one here is claiming that there are packs of chris.....
» 18/10/2006 12:15:10 AM Of course it’s homophobia, YNLI. All kinds of things which were not acceptable in the ol.....
» 17/10/2006 3:12:54 PM I say give Rudd the benefit of the doubt on this one. Howard neutralised One Nation by ad.....
» 16/10/2006 11:55:21 PM Hi Marcus. Like Graham, I think this is really interesting stuff. Also like Graham, I’m .....
» 7/10/2006 8:58:56 AM Onya Tony, deeply superficial and seriously silly article – only a truly laser-like intell.....
» 7/09/2006 11:33:11 PM McConvill is a serial self-promoter, and as we can see from the articles he has written on.....
» 4/09/2006 6:23:41 PM I don't believe this. Third try: http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=4837.....
» 4/09/2006 6:22:42 PM Oops, something went wrong with that last link. It should be http://www.onlineopinion.co.....
» 4/09/2006 6:00:20 PM Mark Bahnisch http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=4721 thinks that there’s a .....
» 1/09/2006 9:44:22 PM Hmmm ... "agree with democracy in principle." Not sure what you mean, shorbe. De.....
» 31/08/2006 7:47:02 PM A contemporary of Liz, I had the benefit of lots of grammar in my education. This was enha.....
» 31/08/2006 7:02:39 PM Will people ever vote for higher taxes? Possibly not. The Washington Watch site has pollin.....
» 26/08/2006 9:30:35 PM In 1993 Brian Beedham argued in The Economist http://www.vote.org/?q=node/8 that our curre.....
» 26/08/2006 10:00:34 AM Martin and Snout, I’ve benefited hugely from your thoughtful posts. Together you’re a grea.....
» 24/08/2006 11:12:53 PM Had to think of you, Maximus, when I was watching this video blog: http://www.zefrank.com/.....
» 23/08/2006 10:47:35 AM It’s great to read Dr van Gend arguing for scientific integrity in the therapeutic cloning.....
» 21/08/2006 8:53:47 PM There’s a lot to be bothered about in this article. First, there’s a failure to distingui.....
» 15/08/2006 2:20:59 PM Damn right, wibble. Noblesse oblige is frequently just another means of entrenching social.....
» 12/08/2006 2:53:32 PM Please don’t understand this as support for boxgum, Celivia and scout, but I do not endors.....
» 9/08/2006 10:13:15 PM Obviously Brooks’ transparent attempt to prove that right-wing christians are nicer people.....
» 9/08/2006 2:02:11 PM TRTL, by the miracle of the modern internet, the data that Brooks has based his article on.....
» 7/08/2006 4:15:36 PM Mark, you’ve touched on it with your references to MoveOn and GetUp, but I don’t think you.....
» 28/07/2006 11:52:46 PM “reality,” back already? Last week you told us you were heading off to Latvia for a gay pa.....
» 22/07/2006 12:25:36 PM Scout, all the points you make are great, but have you noticed that they don’t affect Phil.....
» 21/07/2006 9:44:35 AM Perfection is never expected, fletch, least of all in the weird bi-polar world of OLO. Thi.....
» 19/07/2006 10:21:53 PM No worries, snout. “reality” will probably have something (gasp) sarcastic to say about .....
» 18/07/2006 6:06:22 PM “reality,” your plagiarised post was 284 words long, plenty of room for a citation, and ev.....
» 18/07/2006 2:41:39 PM Where do I start, “reality” check? First, this discussion is not about homosexuals’ heal.....
» 16/07/2006 6:12:06 PM Ah, Mercurius, your two articles here on OLO amount to a shameless attempt to claw back so.....
» 16/07/2006 10:12:39 AM Fletch, could you go easy on the nazi comparisons. The forces of intolerance around here.....
» 15/07/2006 11:36:38 AM Manik, I would dispute your view that we’re discussing a binary issue here: there are a ra.....
» 15/07/2006 9:32:18 AM Gekko, your private/public distinction is a furphy, and I suspect you know it. All organi.....
» 13/07/2006 11:08:54 PM Interesting point, Gekko. In fact, I’ve often wondered what organised religion offers gay .....
» 13/07/2006 6:12:04 PM So what position are you adopting, Manik? Just because you personally are not throwing the.....
» 13/07/2006 12:27:16 AM No, Tomess. Arguments don’t assume that thought is logical – they assume that logical thou.....
» 11/07/2006 11:17:08 PM Coach, my late Auntie Tessie used to sprinkle holy water over me every time I left the hou.....
» 10/07/2006 1:31:36 PM Interesting point, Gekko, though I think you’re confusing thought and action. Humans do h.....
» 9/07/2006 8:48:41 PM “W is painting a picture in which his preferred civil society leaves people alone to do as.....
» 8/07/2006 11:36:55 PM Huh? Boxgum, where did all this come from? Cripple needing a crutch? You didn’t hear it he.....
» 8/07/2006 9:01:09 AM You miss the point, Mark. I’m not here to change anyone, or even to promote my values. Th.....
» 7/07/2006 10:56:53 PM Thank you, alchemist and Pericles, for your eloquent answers to Sellick’s sermon. It’s not.....
» 7/07/2006 8:36:11 AM Subversive stuff, Emily. I returned to live in Australia in 1994, and was shocked to find.....
» 2/07/2006 10:15:58 AM Eric Thanks for participating in this discussion. In my experience this is rare among Onl.....
» 1/07/2006 6:00:12 PM OK. This time I’ll be serious. I reckon Hendo is the only one here who has grasped the p.....
» 30/06/2006 10:58:52 PM This is sensational – a creative suggestion to solve our environmental problems. I particu.....

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